Public Presentation

[Kinkly]

How do you dress when in public- this is mostly for non binary
I'm wanting to know 3 things.
what you wear in public? if you feel beter because of how you are dressed? If what you wear is what you would like to wear or is there some compromize?


I wear borderline female clothes - androgyness clothling from womens department
This is much more comfortable then wearing male clothes that just feel wrong I'd much ratheer wear clearly girly clothes but with my full beard (which is not going to be removed) it doesn't seem safe in this biggitoted world.

[LemonBlossom]

I usually just wear jeans (alternating between male and female ones) and a t-shirt. At my school most people of all genders dress this way, so it's decently androgynous, and I'd be too scared to wear anything much more feminine in public very often.

[Jamie]

Yeah, jeans, jumper, t-shirt
(I'm a kinda ftm/androgyne thing who presents androgyne atm)

[BeckyBoiGrrl]

Normally I would wear black jeans or khaki combats with a t-shirt. My hair would be tied up and gelled back. And of course I wouldn't be without my steel toe-capped boots! <g> Today was an exception and I presented as female with a long brown crinkly skirt and a white sweater. I've no desire for make up though *ick!* It looks good on some folks though.

Tomorrow we have a major snow forecast, so it will be back to boots, jeans and a big baggy jumper.

Have to say though, I'm a plural (currently) putting on a united front, so presentation varies with that.

Peace.

[sparkles]

been wearing andro female clothes only trouble im having is in getting the tops right. also a fem hair style and make up and im good to go.

[Kladeos]

I only wear male clothes (boys' and men's) except for some items that don't matter/fit, like a coat and some of my shoes/socks. I do like dressing like this. It's always disappointing when something I like is too large for me.

[Silverblue]

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what you wear in public? if you feel beter because of how you are dressed? If what you wear is what you would like to wear or is there some compromize?

I wear a huge range of things, but very frequently I wear riot grrl or riot boy gear, and that's quite non-gendered by nature, which is what I want. I always feel perkier like that. Sometimes I wear small men's suits and love those too. I really wear whatever I feel like on the day, though it's very rarely female-specific. To weddings, I usually wear slacks, a shirt, and tie.

[Some Kid]

With me, I usually go for skinny jeans (black or grey, usually), big chunky dark brown Doc Martens, and either a tshirt (sometimes with a cardigan on top) and my long, baggy black leather jacket or a drug rug (I'm wearing my white one right now, actually.) Overall the effect is definitely more butch/androgynous/tomboy than ever distinctly male, and with my penchant for baggy tops that would hide my tits if I had them, strangers really don't have a god damn clue what I am. Most of the time, that works out just fine, but there are times when I'm just pretending to be more boyish than I am to not make any awkward conversations with teachers (most of whom I'm not out to.) When I feel more genderqueer, a lot of times my style of dress feels really empowering, but it can drive me nuts when I'm feeling really femmey and I can't change into something more reflective of how I feel.

[Recursive Paradox]

Even though I'm not really nonbinary in terms of identity, I do dress very androgynously.

Usually I wear zip off boys cargos and standard zip off baggy pants (Similar to this) and relatively androgynous feminine t-shirts (Like this one) and occasionally feminine tops (Like this or Like this one). I also often wear androgynous unisex band t-shirts and whatnot (like in this old pre transition photo). Even my shoes tend to be androgynous or masculine hiking boots.

Even with the slightly lower neckline in the more feminine tops I linked to, I still won't let a neckline go low enough to show cleavage. It doesn't really fit me or my style. I also tend to avoid long sleeve shirts and tend to just wear hoodies, fleece jacket esk thingies and jackets over my short sleeved shirts in layers to help with the cold.

You can also commonly find me wearing women tailored button down shirts of a more formal nature when I'm in a professional or less causal environment (usually like this but generally black or a darker color, and without any patterns).

I often wear my hair up in a sort semi loose mid bun often with hair chopsticks or hair spikes put through the bun in some pattern or orientation. (Some examples of a mid bun with chopsticks here and here). Generally the chopsticks are really simple and are either designed and painted sticks of wood or are a plastic stick.

I don't have dangly bits on the tops of them although sometimes I'll have a tiny decoration piece on the top that sits there instead of dangling.

My coat is a sort of vintage esk, military esk green peat coat. It's mildly female tailored so it looks ridiculously good on me. I don't have any pictures currently and I couldn't find anything similar online. So that's pretty much my style updated for the current time.

I also have a fedora. ^.^ It's adorable on me.

[EJA]

On days where I'm feeling more male, I'll wear baggier pants and a more conservative shirt/sweatshirt/whatever, sneakers too (converse/chucks/whatever). On girlier days, sometimes I'll wear lower cut tops and tighter pants (skinny jeans ftw)....usually it ranges somewhere in between the two. I try to keep it neither super feminine or super masculine because I don't like labeling myself as either male or female; both feel wrong, so somewhere in between is most comfortable.

[not_quite_pie]

I'm female-bodied, and tend to wear male clothes; sneakers, pants and boy shirts (yeah, I dress like a teenager). I will wear skirts if it's really really hot (with shorts underneath), but usually I'm more comfortable in male clothes; they're more hard-wearing and comforable and less flambouyant. I can't pull off androgyny, so it's a compromise, I guess. Nobody ever reacts too negatively (aside from normal family/friend nagging) because it's acceptable in my culture for women to wear traditionally male clothing.